Pakistan Tech Summit 2020 - Silicon Valley, USA - Highlights

Ejad Labs organized the first annual summit in Silicon Valley on February 15th at Draper University, to showcase the best of Pakistani startups, innovators and inventors. The house-full event was attended by 300 tech leaders including top entrepreneurs, techies and VCs from Silicon Valley and featured a 50-people delegation from Pakistan.

The summit was sponsored by VisionX, Netsol Technologies, JS Bank and supported by the Government of Pakistan through the Ministry Of IT & Telecom, Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) and National Information Technology Board -NITB. This summit was organized by Ejad Labs & 2019 PAK-US Tech Exchange Fellows in collaboration with Pakistani Women In Computing - PWiC, Momentum Tech Conference and NUSTIAN. Ejad Labs previously hosted the summit in Oslo, Norway with support from the City of Oslo.

Closing Dinner for the summit was sponsored by NetSol Technologies and hosted at the famous ‘Star Trek’ themed residence of Junaid Quraishi and Malika Junaid. The dinner was attended by leading members of the Pakistani diaspora including Raghib Hussain — Founder of Cavium, Idris Kothari — Founder of Vasona Systems and Sabina Zafar — Vice Mayor of City of San Ramon.